The Alternatives to Violence Project California, through a California state grant, is expanding and establishing a community presence of workshops and volunteer facilitators within Butte County to support local community and High Desert Prison workshops. AVP's experiential workshops focus on community building, communication skills, and conflict resolution for community members and inmates in an effort … Continue reading Alternatives to Violence Project
Occupy Beale Air Force Base
CPJC activists have led anti-militarization demonstrations at the site of Beale Air Force Base for many years, including protests against the Iraq war and military escalation in southwest Asia and around the world. Currently, monthly demonstrations focus upon the U.S. military use of drones to attack overseas and US-born peoples. For more information and upcoming direct actions: OccupyBealeAirForceBase … Continue reading Occupy Beale Air Force Base
Career Builders: Counter-Recruitment
What if they staged a war and nobody came? Sound far fetched? Not to those who know a veteran with a catastrophic injury or post-traumatic stress disorder, or who had a friend or loved one deploy and not return. Not for those who know a service person for whom the military did not live up … Continue reading Career Builders: Counter-Recruitment
Voice of the Veteran Speaker Series
Voice of the Veteran is an ongoing speaker series featuring veterans sharing their experience in the military with no media slant, recruiter advertising, or entertainment industry glorification of violence. Hear from primary sources about war and learn about what it is actually like to be in the military. We have had Army veteran Major John … Continue reading Voice of the Veteran Speaker Series
Everybody’s Revolution: Exploring the Wheel of Integral Nonviolence
The wheel was adopted by the Chico Peace and Justice Center as a way of understanding the elements of peace and social justice and seeing their interconnections. Each “spoke” of the wheel addresses a group of related issues and problems in our world today: community, political action, spiritualism, health, poverty, environmental degradation, social cohesion, racism, … Continue reading Everybody’s Revolution: Exploring the Wheel of Integral Nonviolence
Chico Peace Vigil
Saturdays, rain or shine, at 3rd and Main, Chico. 12:30-1:30pm The Chico Peace Vigil was the start of the Chico Peace & Justice Center. The Chico Peace Vigil traces its history back to the tense Cold War years of the early 1960s. The U.S. military built Titan missiles and nuclear warheads that were to be stored … Continue reading Chico Peace Vigil
Peace Panels Project
The Peace Panel Project (PPP) is a traveling sidewalk graphics art show designed to educate and inspire new activism. It confronts the abuse of governmental and corporate power; domestic violence; foreign policy violence; and environmental issues. The purpose of the Peace Panel Project (PPP) is to to build the movement toward peace and justice.The main themes of the PPP are Nonviolent Communication, Ruses For … Continue reading Peace Panels Project